Matthew Bowns
The team are led by senior engineer Matthew Bowns. Originally a professional yacht skipper, he developed a career running a National commercial property maintenance company repairing and refurbishing buildings such as shops and banks – where trustworthiness and reliability are absolutely essential. He still has some involvement with that business, but seventeen years ago he left to set up Taskforce, giving the same exacting standard of service focussing on customer’s homes, over area of about 10 miles around Emsworth. He is, of course, gas qualified.
Carla Bateman
Carla Bateman is our office manager, running the business on a day to day basis and managing the finances. Very often, if you call us, you will speak to Carla who (usually!) knows everything that is going on. She also knows a considerable amount about heating and plumbing faults and can often advise on the best course of action, sometimes giving advice that can fix a problem, with no need for any other intervention.
Carla is also involved in running PCB Building and Decorating with her husband Paul. They are very often able to do associated work and larger jobs such as fitting bathrooms and kitchens.
Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor is our full time heating engineer and plumber. Originally trained by us, he is highly qualified and very skilled. His experience and knowledge of pipework and system faults often stands us in good stead when tackling the more difficult problems. Customers are often impressed by his determination to complete jobs on time, and his ability to explain clearly what is needed. Jargon is something we all try to avoid! Dylan is our boiler installation specialist. We are all in awe of his ability to produce perfect pipework. His gas qualification is augmented by an unvented cylinders qualification giving us the ability to fit and repair these.
Rachel Bowns
Rachel Bowns (who is married to Matthew) now takes a part time role in helping run the office. She spends much of her time in London as a director of a large Estate Agency firm. However, if you speak to her, you will find that she has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the heating and plumbing trades.
Robert Lineham
Robert Lineham is our very experienced part time heating engineer. He helps with both our boiler installations and our maintenance and repair work, allowing us to be flexible and always have enough ‘hands’ available no matter how busy we are. He has been in the industry for a long time and we often find that his experience gives us the answers to problems that we might otherwise struggle-with. He is also a first rate sailing race officer and trainer – so if that is what you need……..!
Additionally …
We also have several specialists on call to help, such as Chris Cox, our Alpha boiler expert and Brenn Clinton, our first class electrician.
Our own staff, in combination with PCB and our outside specialists make us very flexible and able to tackle a very wide range of jobs. If you are not sure, just ask and we’ll let you know whether we can do it!
We deal with many manufacturers….
What our clients say …
News and advice
Blockages in the heating system
This month we have attended many conventional systems (with a header tank and hot water cylinder) that are just not working properly – or even are not working at all – due to blockages in
When a WC stops flushing
It seems like a long time ago, when I was a young plumber, that I went to work with one, or at most two types of float valve and one wc syphon. These would be
Dripping tap?
Every so often, one of our taps will start to drip. It makes an annoying noise, it deposits limescale (in our hard water area), it wastes water and can cause greater damage to the tap
